Camp County, Texas
Sell Mineral Rights in Camp County, Texas
One of the smallest counties in Texas and one of the most fractionated. Rose City Resources has been the recent active operator.
Producing formations: Paluxy
Where Camp County sits
An oil county. Shallow production with a long history and a lot of inherited interests. All twenty-three counties we buy in are shaded; click one to open it.
The history of oil and gas in Camp County
The smallest county, the most divided ownership
Camp County is about two hundred square miles, one of the smallest counties in Texas, and it has produced more than twenty-seven million barrels of oil. Put those two numbers together and you have the defining feature of mineral ownership here.
1940
Oil was discovered in Camp County in 1940, in the wave of northeast Texas discoveries that followed the East Texas Field by a decade, Hawkins in Wood County the same year, Quitman two years later.
Camp County never had a boom on that scale. What it had was steady production for eighty-six years. By 2000, cumulative production stood at 27,592,815 barrels, with more than 511,600 barrels produced that year alone.
Why small county plus long production equals complicated
Here is the arithmetic that matters.
In a large county, a productive field covers a fraction of the land and most families own nothing under it. In a county of two hundred square miles with production spread across it, a large share of the county's families ended up with a mineral interest, usually a small one, on a small tract.
Then give those interests eighty-six years to pass through four generations of heirs, most of whom left for Dallas or Longview or further. The result is ownership divided into fractions of fractions, spread across families who may not know each other, on tracts that were never large to begin with.
Pittsburg is the county seat and the whole county has fewer than fourteen thousand people. The interests, however, are held by many times that number of people scattered across the country.
The present
Rose City Resources permitted two wells here in 2024, the Dinsmore 1 and the Roach 1. BASA Resources permitted in 2022. That is honest activity for a county this size, and it is the same operator consolidating across Cass, Morris and Marion.
What to know if you own here
- Your interest is probably tiny and that is completely normal. Camp County fractions are small because the county is small, not because your family got a bad deal.
- Most buyers will not return your call. An interest below a certain size is not worth a fund's underwriting time. It is worth ours.
- Family groups are worth more together. If four cousins each hold a piece of grandad's tract, that package is materially more valuable than four separate sales.
Sources: Handbook of Texas (Texas State Historical Association) county and field entries; American Oil & Gas Historical Society; Texas Almanac; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas energy research; Railroad Commission of Texas permit and completion records as published through texas-drilling.com and the weekly drilling reports of the Longview News-Journal and Tyler Morning Telegraph. Verified August 2026.
Who is operating in Camp County
These operators have filed permits or completions in Camp County with the Railroad Commission. If your check comes from one of them, we already know the wells.
- Rose City Resources
- BASA Resources
What we buy in Camp County
Mineral rights, royalty interests, overriding royalty, non-participating royalty, non-operated working interest, and non-producing minerals. There is no size limit in either direction. We buy a single interest in one unit and we buy whole family positions.
If your piece feels too small to bother with, call anyway. Small interests in the same tract usually belong to relatives, and we would rather work with the whole family at once.
How an offer gets made
You call or fill out the form. We pull the county records, the appraisal district roll and the Railroad Commission production history ourselves. Within three business days you get a specific cash number in writing and a plain explanation of how we got there. If we think you should hold, we say that too. We cover title, recording and closing, and you keep every royalty check until the day we close.
Call or text (936) 289-3438 Or email offers@longleafmineralco.com
Camp County questions
What formations produce in Camp County?
The producing formation we track in Camp County is the Paluxy. In short: an oil county. Shallow production with a long history and a lot of inherited interests. Ask your operator or check your division order to see which formation your own check comes from.
Who operates wells in Camp County?
Operators that have filed permits or completions in Camp County with the Texas Railroad Commission include Rose City Resources and BASA Resources. If your check comes from one of them, we already know the wells. You can also look up any well yourself in the Railroad Commission's public records.
What should I check before selling minerals in Camp County?
Your interest is probably tiny and that is completely normal. Camp County fractions are small because the county is small, not because your family got a bad deal. Most buyers will not return your call. An interest below a certain size is not worth a fund's underwriting time. It is worth ours. Family groups are worth more together. If four cousins each hold a piece of grandad's tract, that package is materially more valuable than four separate sales. If any of that is unclear, call or text us and we will look it up with you for free. We also buy in the counties that border Camp County: Titus County, Morris County, Upshur County, Wood County and Franklin County.
Other counties we buy in
Own minerals next door too? We also buy in the counties that border Camp County: Titus County, Morris County, Upshur County, Wood County, Franklin County.